We wanted to have an honest conversation about our newly launched membership programme. Our latest Stage Talk explores this funding model, from sustainability to editorial independence, as we discuss both the promise and the pitfalls. Search 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat' rss.com/podcasts/bel...

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This week, we explored how our work is funded - what keeps our open-source collective's lights on? Bellingcat's Sarah Bishop Woods and Mareike Vitt, both members of our Development Team, joined us to ...

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Vielleicht brauchen wir gar nicht so viel Tech-Innovation und stattdessen mehr Menschen, die Männlichkeit kompatibel für ein Zusammenleben mit anderen machen.

Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik@blaetter.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nach Berichten über Übergriffe kündigt Meta zusätzliche Sicherheitsvorkehrungen für KI-Brillen an. Übergriffige Männer wie Stalker oder Pick-up-Artists bilden offenbar ein großes Marktsegment; Betroffene werden alleingelassen: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026...

"I am part of multiple rapidly expanding global networks of people & communities who are resisting AI & objecting to the power of the big tech companies. Within these resistance networks, women are leading the way" a must-read from my colleague Jennie Stephens www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Do women have an AI problem?

While big tech has been strategically investing to promote a positive narrative around AI, many rapidly expanding global networks of people and communities are resisting AI tools, writes Jennie C Step...

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Das passt. Jens Spahn ist natürlich in Peter Thiels "Geheimverein". 🤮

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 2mo ago

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

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Number of days where it is important that this song exists is pretty wild right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWlD...

Spiritbox - Soft Spine - Live From Toyota Ontario Arena

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I am deeply ashamed at recognizing myself in the conclusion of this🧵. I spend a lot of time being outraged at what the US is doing but apparently did not care enough to find out that the EU differs mostly in messaging. This is horrible.

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 6mo ago

On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.

Managed to write something after a long silence, honestly. This one is personal, about letting go of past worldviews, and vowing to refuse to fit in. Maybe some it will resonate. jksteinberger.medium.com/against-fitt...

Against fitting in

Between dissolution and crystallisation

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DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung

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When Trump takes Greenland with no major repercussions, he won't stop there. This doesn't mean invading Europe. But it does mean destroying European social democracy. 🧵

US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House

It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark after renewed US insistence it must have Greenland.

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Ich habe endlich Zeit gefunden, den Text "Donald J. Trump und der neue Cäsarismus" (www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...) in die @blaetter.bsky.social zu lesen und: es hat sich gelohnt. Der Text von @fargonaut.bsky.social ist ein Must-Read für alle #AntifaÖkonom:innen, denn er bietet... 🧵 /1

Donald J. Trump und der neue Cäsarismus

Der Kampf um die Gewaltenteilung in den USA geht in die nächste Runde. Nachdem US-Präsident Donald J. Trump die Bundespolizeibehörde ICE angewiesen hatte, die Zahl der Abschiebungen massiv auszuweiten...

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One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Zusammen für Gaza - Demo am 27.9. in Berlin www.zusammen-fuer-gaza.de

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

Israel is perpetrating a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza, committing illegal acts with the “specific intent” of wiping out Palestinians, Amnesty International has said. youtu.be/OOCxGiJkRXk

Israel carrying out ‘live-streamed genocide’ in Gaza, Amnesty says

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It's here. Pit in stomach feeling. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger

The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism@jksteinberger.bsky.social · last yr.

I am so apprehensive about this. 😬😬😬 At 8am UK time tomorrow, I have been told my very first Guardian opinion column, on "cataclysm capitalism," will go live. On one hand, this is a huge dream being realised. I had pretty much given up. Yay!

Can find no mention of this in any German news?

I wish I could unfollow anyone not skeeting about Gaza and Palestine right now. There is a for-real genocide going on RIGHT NOW and people are still skeeting about sandwiches and art and USians having protest signs. It makes me want to throw up.

Es ist offiziell: Ich habe ein #Berufsverbot bekommen (Auszüge⬇️). Weil ich eine marxistische Analyse der #Klimakrise vertrete. Ich stehe dazu: Die Wirtschaft muss demokratisiert werden, damit nicht einige wenige Superreiche für ihre Profite den Planeten zugrunde richten können.

The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won. What now? A 🧵. 1/ t.co/FKxxmLyfce

The United States has declared economic war on some of its closest allies and Silicon Valley is itching to use the power of the state to defend its interests at all costs. It’s time for an alliance not just to combat US belligerence, but to build a different vision for tech.

We need an international alliance against the US and its tech industry

The United States must face consequences for economic warfare

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Without reversing the trend of increasing floor space per capita in Germany, climate targets for housing and construction will not be met. Congrats @napiontek.bsky.social on his first paper =) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

live (a) little: GHG emissions from residential building materials for all 400 counties and cities of Germany until 2050

Germany is trying to solve the housing crisis in many of its cities with new construction. At the same time it is trying to meet its greenhouse gas em…

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Here it is: I think it's some of the most important writing I have ever done. What We Are Up Against. Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it. link.medium.com/T6eZSPLevKb

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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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Handarbeit für heute erfolgreich erledigt. Danke an alle! #b1412 #FrankfurterAllee

The tech industry makes our lives hell, but at least you can help name the worst billionaire of the year. Cast your ballot! 🗳️

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2y ago

💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥 The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH? 🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...

Trump und Orbàn und ihre klimaleugnerischen Freunde lobbyieren nun auch bei uns: Wir bei @correctiv.org decken ein Netzwerk auf: Geschaffen, um Klimapolitik zu bremsen & weiter Öl & Gas zu verbrennen. Auch finanziert aus den USA. Verbunden mit FDP und CDU. 🧵 correctiv.org/aktuelles/kl...

Gas und Öl statt Klimaschutz: Wer Trumps Pläne nach Deutschland bringt

US-Klimaleugner und marktradikale Thinktanks beeinflussen deutsche Politik: Verbindungen zwischen FDP, CDU und Trump-Netzwerken enthüllt.

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Want a good life for all and a healthy planet? Universal energy access is key. Our new study shows universal access to modern energy may actually reduce projected total energy use, thanks to its impact on population dynamics. 🧵 #GreenSky #ClimateSky iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The energy-population dividend: Evidence from energy-specific population projections - IOPscienceSearch

The energy-population dividend: Evidence from energy-specific population projections, Camille Belmin, Peter-Paul Pichler, Guillaume Marois, Shonali Pachauri, Helga Weisz

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